Assess the impact of the war on civilians in territories occupied by Japan in South-East Asia. There was a significant detrimental impact of the war upon the civilians of occupied territories in South East Asia. The Japanese intended the Greater East Asian Co Prosperity Sphere (GEACPS) to be a united zone of mutual co-operation promoting economic development‚ social and political freedom from western imperial domination. However‚ the reality of the GEACPS was really a facade and a mere justification
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What is the Middle East? According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica‚ the Middle East is the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea‚ extending from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran and sometimes beyond. Geography There is no single definition of what constitutes the Middle East. The CIA website states that the Middle East includes these countries. Egypt is also included in many lists of countries in the Middle East. The borders of countries in the
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understating East Asian culture. Confucianism‚ indeed‚ is crucial in understanding the culture. However‚ one should not overlook the influence of Buddhism on Confucianism and many areas of East Asian culture. Buddhism‚ one of the world’s oldest religions and a philosophy‚ is shared by East Asian countries‚ thus in order to fully appreciate the East Asian culture‚ one should learn about Buddhism and its significant influence on the culture. This paper will discuss Buddhism shared by East Asian culture
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After The War: A Journey Through The War Essay Would say that setting plays an important role in a novel? It doesn’t matter if the main theme contributes to the setting‚ how the characters affect the setting‚ or symbolism also contributes to the setting‚ setting is important. Which one can’t help but to ask is how? How is setting important? The setting of After the War was the most important role because it influences plot‚ characters‚ and theme/symbolism. Later on this book‚ these
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Globalization: A Give & Take Shortly after my 16th birthday‚ making me of legal working age in the United States‚ I reluctantly signed the papers to be an employee of the McDonald’s Corporation. I used the term reluctantly because to work in a McDonald’s holds deeply negative connotations in American society‚ especially amongst teenagers. For three years I cooked the food‚ worked the cash register‚ cleaned the restaurant‚ and upheld the highest of McDonald’s standards. Just before my departure
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The Geography of the Middle East Essay The Middle East is a large and diverse geographical area located in southwest Asia and northeast Africa. It extends over 2‚000 miles from the Black Sea in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south‚ and about 1‚000 miles from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the mountains of Iran. The term “Middle East” came into common use in the early twentieth century‚ but remains loosely defined. One term sometimes applied to part of this area is “Fertile Crescent‚” which
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Christianity in East Asia When Europeans started sailing the globe looking for new land they wanted to colonize they had many tools that they could use‚ ships‚ the astrolabe‚ muskets and cannons for showing their military might‚ manufactured goods to show their economic power‚ and their last tool was religion‚ specifically Christianity of the Catholic and Roman Catholic denomination to counter the spread of the Protestant movement in Europe. Dominican‚ Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries successfully
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October 2014 A New Middle East Fareed Zakaria is a writer‚ political scientist‚ and magazine and television news commentator. He was born and raised in Bombay‚ India‚ the son of a politically progressive parents were also practicing Muslim. Over the past years there have been several conflicts in the Middle East over who have dominated the nation of the Arabs. Zakaria writes this particular story to educate and persuade his readers that‚ there will never be peace in the Middle East as long as Western
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Introduction South Asia is a volatile region. In particular‚ India and Pakistan have‚ since the end of the Cold War‚ been widely regarded as the two countries most likely to become involved in a nuclear war. The cultural‚ religious‚ and ideological tensions that underlie the state-tostate antagonism are very deep-seated. The long and contested border‚ frequent armed conflict and mutual distrust result in an inherently unstable situation between the two nuclear armed rivals. This study will summarize
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South Asia contains seven nations: India‚ Pakistan‚ Nepal‚ Bhutan‚ Bangladesh‚ Sri Lanka‚ and Maldives. The combined area of these seven nations is approximately 1.7 million square miles‚ and it contains 1.3 billion people. South Asia has five times the population of the United States in an area that is only one-half the size of the United States . South Asia is made up of three topographic regions. The Himalaya‚ Karakorum‚ and Hindu Kush mountain ranges and their southern slopes ‚the Indo-Gangetic
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